DevForce 2010 WinClient Features
DevForce WinClient
Professional Enterprise
Persistence / Business Objects
Number of Entity Types
Up to 100 Unlimited
Visual Studio 2010, .NET 4
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Full Entity Framework Integration
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POCO (Plain Old CLR Object) Support
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Full LINQ – including subqueries, aggregation, and projections
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N-Tier Data Access for WPF & WinForms Clients
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Client-side Caching
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Disconnected and Offline Operation
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Span Queries
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Inheritance and Polymorphic Queries
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Asynchronous Queries – both parallel and serial
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Dynamic Query Composition
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Validation/Verification Engine
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Localization Support
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Property and Query Interception and Modification
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Object Lifecycle Events
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Dynamic Live Lists
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Customizable T4 code generation templates
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Database
Stored Procedures, Triggers, Views
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Custom ID Generators
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Pass-through Entity SQL
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Multi-database
(Cross-database Relations, Distributed Transactions)
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(Cross-database Relations, Distributed Transactions)
Standard Business Object Server
N-Tier Internet Deployment
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Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
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IIS Integration
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Windows Service Server & Console Server
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ASP.NET Membership, Roles, and
Profiles Integration
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Profiles Integration
Network Data Compression (10:1 typical)
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Remote Procedure/Method Calls
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Server-side Events
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SSL / Encryption
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Multi-tenant Support
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Data Center Business Object Server (purchased separately)
Supports enterprise-class scalability, high availability, and security for running business-critical applications.
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Clustering & Load Balancing
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Fault Tolerance & Fail-over
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Distributed Transactions
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"Push" Data Updates to Clients
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Advanced Authentication Scenarios
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Documentation
version: 6.0.4
release date: July 21, 2010
release date: July 21, 2010
Industry Buzz
Billy Hollis,
Microsoft MVP
“Smart client systems definitely need a core framework that supplements the .NET libraries. Otherwise, a team can waste several months creating very generic functionality instead of working on specific business problems.”
Dean Tessman,
Manager of Developement, MediSolution
“The ROI from DevForce has been significant. Overall, we estimate that DevForce has saved us many man months of development time and increased developer efficiency dramatically.”
